Three months into the project (Sept. 2005), BioCorder is at the proof of concept stage. We are deploying Life Science Identifiers (LSID’s) within our current web databases (more info here) and converting these databases to output Resource Description Framework (RDF) statements. These are prerequisites of the Semantic Web. For the most part Semantic Web technologies are not usually something you can point your web browser at like websites. As such there is no single website that displays the results of these efforts, and much of the work we have done is hidden beneath our web databases such that the benefits of deploying these technologies are not yet visible. The exception to this are those point on the web (portals) where these data are integrated. We are developing prototype portals, an early example of which can be viewed here. Perhaps the most conspicuous products of our efforts to date are Rod Page's Taxonomic Search Engine, that seeks out and validates taxonomic name requests, and our Specimen Image Database (SID) which has been converted to serve RDF statements (view RDF formatted data from SID here).